
Thanks for this! Its interesting you spoke of value village. How are they allowed to sell items that do not work? I sought to replace the coffeemaker with a new one from them only for it not to function. If this repair cafe is doable, may take the coffeemaker I have now, it is leaking from the bottom for no reason. I do resonate with the consumer electronics made cheep..I just bought what was supposed to be a quality replacement for my headphone extension. Mine has a stereo / mono switch, has some gold plated connectors and so forth..actually that may be a repair cafe fix too. The new one? is made of some thin string type cable, is short,and looks like a sneeze would damage the thing. thanks again, Kare On Thu, 26 Jun 2025, D. Hugh Redelmeier via Talk wrote:
We're in a throw-away culture.
I think that DVD players are quite inexpensive at Value Village and the like.
First-world people's time is expensive and most consumer hardware is cheap. Of course there are exceptions.
Most stuff is made to be inexpensive and functional, not easy to repair.
I recently inherited have an almost perfectly good portable radio. I'm pretty sure that all that is wrong is that the volume control potentiometer is worn out. But the time for me to disassemble the unit, figure out a replacement pot (if possible), reassemble would be worth much more than an AM/FM radio.
Expensive things may be worth repairing. Or simple failures.
All is not lost. The next meeting of the Repair Cafe is this Saturday at Withrow Park Farmer's Market: <https://repaircafetoronto.ca/> It might be worth pre-registering your item for repair.
From: Karen Lewellen via Talk <talk@lists.gtalug.org> To: talk@lists.gtalug.org Cc: Karen Lewellen <klewellen@shellworld.net> Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2025 22:48:41 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [GTALUG] speaking of doctors, how about electronic repair ones?
as in things like DVD or cd players, coffeemakers those sorts of electronics? In the case of the DVD player it is a better quality Panasonic model, so I may ask them about out of warranty work. Other ideas? Thanks, Karen
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